From Hacker to Protector

Now just 25, Ejovi Nuwere has already had plenty of experience in computer security. His new company aims to make Net calling safer. For many technically talented teens, computer hacking brings about a first brush with law enforcement. For Ejovi Nuwere, it was a ticket out of the poverty-ridden, sometimes violent streets of New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

What started as a hobby at the age of 15 led in time to a computer security job with Lehman Brothers, and later with @Stake, the fabled security consulting firm that grew out of L0pht Heavy Industries, the Boston-based hackers collective, now a unit of Symantec. From Hacker to Protector